Burma: Urgent call for action

international | arts and media | event notice Friday September 28, 2007 11:31 by Dan - Labour Youth

Burma: Urgent call for action

Amnesty International Irish Section is joining Burma Action Ireland in calling all human rights activists to take to the streets on Saturday 29 September from 2pm to 4pm. In Dublin we will be assembling at the Spire on O'Connell Street but activists everywhere are urged to take the streets in their own community.

We will be carrying placards and banners in solidarity with the monks
and citizens of Myanmar who have peacefully taken to the streets of
their country. Mirroring what the people of Myanmar have been doing, we
will periodically be creating a human chain the length of O'Connell
Street during the demonstration.

Suggested slogans for use in your own community:

· Support the People of Myanmar
· Support Peace in Myanmar
· Free Aung San Suu Kyi
· The People of Ireland..WALK ON...with the people of Myanmar
· Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Conscience
for Myanmar

Please take a brief amount of time out of your very busy schedules to
act in solidarity with the people of Myanmar. We can help prevent an
escalation of violence by focusing international attention on Myanmar.
We must hold international leaders to account in ensuring the rights of
the people of Myanmar are protected.